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Alison Pill

Alison Pill

Overview
Alison Elizabeth Pill (born November 27, 1985) is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 film, television and theatre actress.

She was born in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province located in east-central Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area. Ontario is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba to the west and Quebec to the east, and 5 U.S...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and attended Vaughan Road Academy
Vaughan Road Academy
Vaughan Road Academy is an International Baccalaureate school in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada. Vaughan Road is situated at the Vaughan Road and Winona Drive intersection close to Oakwood Avenue and southwest of Forest Hill. It works in partnership with Arlington Middle...

, a high school in Toronto.

In 2006, Pill starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...

 drama The Book of Daniel, and was nominated for a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are for Broadway productions and...

 for her performance in Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is an English playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter.-Life:McDonagh was born in Camberwell, London, England to Irish parents...

's The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Act One:...

. Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg
Anne Kronenberg
Anne Kronenberg is an American political administrator and LGBT rights activist. She is best known for being Harvey Milk's campaign manager during his historic San Francisco Board of Supervisors campaign in 1977 and his aide as he held that office until the assassinations of Milk and mayor George...

 in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk
Milk (film)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White. The film was...

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Alison Elizabeth Pill (born November 27, 1985) is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 film, television and theatre actress.

Private Life


She was born in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...

, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province located in east-central Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area. Ontario is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba to the west and Quebec to the east, and 5 U.S...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 and attended Vaughan Road Academy
Vaughan Road Academy
Vaughan Road Academy is an International Baccalaureate school in the Oakwood-Vaughan neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada. Vaughan Road is situated at the Vaughan Road and Winona Drive intersection close to Oakwood Avenue and southwest of Forest Hill. It works in partnership with Arlington Middle...

, a high school in Toronto.

Carrer


In 2006, Pill starred as Grace Webster in the short-lived NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...

 drama The Book of Daniel, and was nominated for a Tony Award
Tony Award
The Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Awards, recognize achievement in live American theatre and are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ceremony in New York City. The awards are for Broadway productions and...

 for her performance in Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh is an English playwright, filmmaker, and screenwriter.-Life:McDonagh was born in Camberwell, London, England to Irish parents...

's The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Act One:...

. Pill had a major supporting role as campaign manager Anne Kronenberg
Anne Kronenberg
Anne Kronenberg is an American political administrator and LGBT rights activist. She is best known for being Harvey Milk's campaign manager during his historic San Francisco Board of Supervisors campaign in 1977 and his aide as he held that office until the assassinations of Milk and mayor George...

 in the Oscar-winning 2008 film Milk
Milk (film)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White. The film was...

. She recently starred as April, a college student who discovers she has cancer, in the HBO series, In Treatment
In Treatment
In Treatment is an HBO drama, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, about a psychotherapist, 53-year-old Dr. Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients. The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on January 28, 2008, as a five-night-a-week series...

.

Stage career

  • None of the Above New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment...

     (2003)
  • The Distance From Here New York City (2004)
  • On The Mountain New York City (2005)
  • The Lieutenant of Inishmore
    The Lieutenant of Inishmore
    The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a black comedy by playwright Martin McDonagh, first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London in 2001.-Act One:...

    New York City (2006)
  • Blackbird, New York City (2007)
  • Mauritius
    Mauritius (play)
    Mauritius is a play on Broadway which opened on October 4, 2007 at the Biltmore Theatre and closed November 25, 2007. Written by Pulitzer Prize for Drama-nominee Theresa Rebeck, it is her Broadway debut. It is about two sisters who inherit a stamp collection which might be worth a fortune. Many of...

    , New York City (2007)
  • Reasons to be pretty, New York City (2008)

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1997 The New Ghostwriters Mysteries Lucy (1 Episode)
1998 Anatole
Anatole (TV series)
Anatole was an animated children's televisions series based on the Anatole book series by Eve Titus. The series tells the story of Anatole who lives in Paris. He works as a night watchman in a cheese factory. He has a wife, Doucette and a family of six little mice...

Paulette (Unknown Episodes)
You're Invited to Mary-Kate & Ashley's Camping Party Friend # 2 (direct-to-video)
Fast Track Alexa Stokes (1 episode)
PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian sci-fi/drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes from 1996 to 2000...

Sophie Schulman (1 Episode)
The Last Don II Bethany (unknown episodes)
Degas & the Dancer Marie von Goetham
Stranger in Town Hetty
1999 Locked in Silence Lacey
Redwall
Redwall (TV series)
Redwall is a television series made by Canada-based Nelvana and France-based Alphanim and is based on the Redwall novels by Brian Jacques. The series currently spans three seasons, the first based on the first book Redwall, the second on Mattimeo and the third on Martin the Warrior...

Cornflower (voice) (1999-2003)
Dear America: A Journey to the New World Remember Patience Whipple/Mem
What Katy Did Katy
God's New Plan Samantha Hutton
Different Sally
Poltergeist: The Legacy
Poltergeist: The Legacy
Poltergeist: The Legacy is a Canadian/American horror television series which ran from 1996 to 1999. The series tells the story of the members of a secret society known as the Legacy, and their efforts to protect humankind from occult dangers...

Paige (1 Episode)
The Life Before This Jessica
Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Frog Shapiro/Marfa
A Holiday Romance
A Holiday Romance
A Holiday Romance is a 1999 film directed by Bobby Roth, starring such actors as Naomi Judd, and Andy Griffith. This film has been released on DVD.-Cast:Naomi Judd - Lily Waite
Andy Griffith - Jake Peterson
...

Fern
2000 Redwall: The Movie Cornflower (voice)
Traders
Traders (TV series)
Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.-Overview:Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER...

Andrea Exter (1 Episode)
Skipped Parts
Skipped Parts
Skipped Parts , is a movie based on Tim Sandlin's book of the same name. Skipped Parts is the first in a series of novels based on the lives of Maury and Sam, the second and final being Sorrow Floats and Social Blunders. The film about a group of characters living in a small Wyoming town...

Chuckette Morris (aka The Wonder of Sex in UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

)
The Dinosaur Hunter Julia
The Other Me
The Other Me
The Other Me is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie about a teenager who accidentally clones himself as a genius and ends up using his clone to pass school. The movie is the 23rd Disney Channel Original Movie and is based on the book Me Two by Mary C. Ryan. -Plot:Will Browning is a seventh grade...

Allna Browning DCOM
Baby Larkin Malone
2001 Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows is a 2001 television film based on the memoirs of Lorna Luft, the daughter of Judy Garland. The production is notable for its meticulous recreations of Garland's films and concerts, and verisimilitudinous impressions of Garland by Tammy Blanchard and Judy...

Young Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft is an American television, stage, and film actress and singer. She is the daughter of the legendary singer and actress Judy Garland and Sid Luft, and the half-sister of Liza Minnelli.-Biography:...

 
aka Judy Garland: L'ombre d'une étoile (Canada: French title)
Midwives Constance 'Connie' Danforth
What Girls Learn Tilden
2002 The Pilot's Wife
The Pilot's Wife
The Pilot's Wife : A Novel is a 1998 novel by Anita Shreve. It is chronologically the third novel in Shreve's informal trilogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent...

Mattie Lyons
Perfect Pie
Perfect Pie
Perfect Pie is a play written by Judith Thompson, and first staged at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre in 2000, with Judith Thompson also directing. The original cast starred Nancy Palk , Tara Rosling , Sonja Smits , and Liisa Repo-Martell...

Marie (age 15)
A.W.O.L. Patient (unconfirmed)
2003 Fast Food High Emma Redding
Pieces of April
Pieces of April
Pieces of April is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Hedges. In his commentary on the film's DVD release, Hedges says the inspiration for his screenplay was twofold — his mother's battle with and death from cancer, and a true story about a group of friends whose...

Beth Burns
An Unexpected Love Samantha Mayer aka This Much I Know
2004 Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is a 2004 American comedy film based on the book by Dyan Sheldon. which was released on February 20, 2004, by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Sara Sugarman with screenplay penned by Dyan Sheldon and Gail Parent. The film was produced by Robert...

Ella Gerard aka Bekenntnisse einer Highschool Diva (Germany)
The Crypt Club Liesl
A Separate Place Beth
Plain Truth
Plain Truth
Plain Truth is a novel written by Jodi Picoult about a murder on an Amish farm, first published in 2001.-Plot summary:The book tells the story of how a dead infant found on an Amish farm shakes the entire community. An eighteen-year-old, unmarried Amish girl, Katie Fisher, is determined to be the...

Katie Fisher accused and disowned amish girl
2005 Dear Wendy
Dear Wendy
Dear Wendy is a 2005 movie directed by Thomas Vinterberg, and starring Jamie Bell, Bill Pullman, Mark Webber and Alison Pill among others.It is a co-production of Denmark, Germany, France and the UK.The script was written by Lars von Trier....

Susan
2006 The Book of Daniel
The Book of Daniel (TV series)
The Book of Daniel was a short-lived television series broadcast on NBC. The network promoted it as a serious drama about Christians and the Christian faith, but it was controversial with some Christians regarding certain aspects of the show. The show had been proposed for NBC's 2005 fall line-up,...

Grace Webber (8 episodes)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural TV series, which premiered on September 30, 2001. The series is about the Major Case Squad in a fictional version of the New York City Police Department set in New York City's One Police Plaza and is the second spin-off of the...

Lisa Ramsey (1 episode)
2007 Dan in Real Life
Dan in Real Life
Dan in Real Life is a 2007 American comedy-drama film, directed by Peter Hedges and starring Steve Carell and Juliette Binoche.-Plot:Dan Burns is a newspaper advice columnist, widower and father to Jane, Cara, and Lilly in the New Jersey suburbs. His column is in contention to be syndicated...

Jane Burns
2008 Milk
Milk (film)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White. The film was...

Anne Kronenberg
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an American crime drama television series, which premiered on CBS on October 6, 2000. The show was created by Anthony E. Zuiker and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer...

Kelsey Levin (1 episode)
2009 The Awakening of Abigail Harris Abigail Harris
One Way to Valhalla Dale (completed)
In Treatment
In Treatment
In Treatment is an HBO drama, produced and developed by Rodrigo Garcia, about a psychotherapist, 53-year-old Dr. Paul Weston, and his weekly sessions with patients. The program, which stars Gabriel Byrne as Paul, debuted on January 28, 2008, as a five-night-a-week series...

April (Season 2 regular)
2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is an upcoming film based on the comic book series Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley. The film is directed by Edgar Wright and stars Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.-Premise:-Cast:...

Kim Pine (post-production)
Sweet Baby Jesus Mary (pre-production)
Thicker Emmy (pre-production)
2011 Jack and Diane unknown (in production)

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